She noted the importance of such a test given that another wave of coronavirus could hit the country in the fall. Birx predicted another seasonal round of the virus “won’t be the way it is now” come fall, expressing optimism that a fully developed antibody test would “identify, isolate and contact trace.”

Birx on April 2 said that antibody tests could be ready “soon, within this month if universities help us, absolutely.”

The first rapid coronavirus blood test that would measure antibodies and immunity was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on March 24, but Dr. Marc Siegel said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday the test is “not entirely there yet.”

Siegel said he had contacted Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), who told him the current approved tests, made by Cellex Inc., have a one in three rate of not getting it right.

“They say you don’t have the virus when you actually do,” Siegel added.

Dr. Bill Morice, president of the Mayo Clinic Laboratories, which is conducting trials for a blood test to detect antibodies, told “Fox & Friends” the “serologic test” will allow doctors to identify people who have been exposed and those who are potentially immune to the virus.

Morice said that the blood test will be able to detect that a person has had the coronavirus even if they were asymptomatic.

“About a week to two weeks after you’re exposed or have symptoms and even if you don’t have symptoms with the virus, your body during that time is actually mounting a response. Part of that response is a production of a protein called an antibody which is specific for the SARS virus.”

Meanwhile, the New York Blood Center has made a call for recovered COVID-19 patients to donate their blood plasma to help treat others seriously affected by the illness.

“In the treatment, known as convalescent plasma, the patient is transfused with the donor’s plasma with the goal of using the donor’s antibodies to help clear the virus more rapidly and help decrease the need for ICU beds and ventilators,” the New York Blood Center said in a statement to Fox News.